Texas Fall/Winter thread!

[Bird]

[QUOTEI hope it works out for you Bird,, nothing like having grand kids around,, they will keep you young,, beside they can work on your computer when it goes down.. Lou][/QUOTE]

Lou, they certainly should learn to work on computers, since that's what my son-in-law does.:laughing:

 

[foreman Etexas]

Well desided to go ahead and wrap the pipes just in case,dont feel like fixing any pipes. Hernia surgery in 3wks if can hold out that long,glad to have TBN around so I dont get to bored laying around at the house...

 

[txdon]

Has the cold hit anywhere in Texas? It's still warm, 76˚, humid and no rain here.

 

[Bird]

Has the cold hit anywhere in Texas? It's still warm, 76˚, humid and no rain here.

Our low last night was 50, then it came up to 60 about 7 a.m. and has been slowly going down since, very slowly, in fact 52 now, but forecast low tonight is 27.

 

[Western]

48* right now and breezy, going to be a wind chill tonight

Had a few sprinkles earlier today but nothing to really add up to even a menace.

 

[txdon]

Ok, it just hit, 1" rain, wind and the temperature just dropped 18˚ to now 58˚

 

[texasjohn]

43 degrees now, 15 mph wind and wind advisory, temp dropping.
Yep, got our rain.....dripped off the 60 foot shed roof,ran 8 feet and was all soaked up:thumbdown:

 

[bindian]

We got 1/4 inch and about 3.5 thunder booms. A sad show all around.
Sadness prevails.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Western]

Ended the night working in 23* windchill:thumbsdown: Snow flurries started pretty good on the way home in SW Wise county around 2:30am, but didnt even seem to wet the road.

Saw what looked to be a large structure fire, called 911, never could find it. Dont know if the VFD did either right now, big flames but didn't last long. Felt like a DA calling it in, but would have felt worse if I heard later it was a lost family, what do you do.

 

[texasjohn]

burn ban recently reinstated for Williamson Co.
wind whistling outside now. 35 degrees, WC is 24.
Western, glad you are home and warming up!
Just caught mouse in snap trap. They are coming in out of cold.

 

[NativeSon]

Finally feels like winter. The front came thru yesterday but only a little over 1/8 inch. of rain. Temps dropped slowly thru the afternoon. 4am and it's 37* and the wind is 23 mph. Doesn't look like it will get below freezing till tomorrow night, but this wind will make the going tough out there.

Charlie

 

[ronjhall]

With your weather reports on this thread. I am having second thoughts about heading down your way in a couple of weeks. :confused2:

 

[RDrancher]

27 here this morning with a light dusting of snow. Hey...the weather guy actually got one right!

 

[Bird]

With your weather reports on this thread. I am having second thoughts about heading down your way in a couple of weeks. :confused2:

Ron, don't you know that Texas weather changes fast enough you can't even imagine what it will be like 2 weeks from now; temperture may be zero, or on the other hand, it might be 80 degrees.

I'm not sure if that "light dusting of snow" that RDrancher mentioned was enough precipitation to call a "Trace" or not, but it can be seen at our house even if it isn't enough to measure.:laughing:

 

[rgamble3]

Got .53" last night lots of noise and lightning.

Roy

 

[jinman]

We had wind puffing against our bedroom wall most of the night, but I was warm and cozy under a blanket and comforter. I think my wife had a hard time sleeping, but not me. I heard sleet/snow once and this morning there's 1/2" to 3/4" dusting of snow. It's thickest on my deck and handrails. The wind kept it whipped off most of the road surfaces. It's 24 degrees and has been that for probably 2 hours. Finally some Texas winter weather has come, but I sure wish it had rained more here before this powdering we got. May get more today. . . we'll see.

EDIT: Oh yes! We had a big hot fire in the fireplace last night and I threw some logs on this morning to get it going again. At least we'll have a nice 'bun warmer' going for the duration of this chill.

 

[RDrancher]

My wife got all of the Christmas decorations up yesterday and gave the lawn a good short mowing, knowing that she wouldn't get them done if it was cold out. I didn't have the heart to tell her how warm its going to be later this week.

Me...? I watched football all day in the bark-o-lounger. I woke up with a lot of pain in my left foot on Friday. Turns out I have a stress fracture on the outside of my foot. I don't remember doing anything to cause it. :confused3: The cold has settled into the foot quite nicely.

 

[Lou66]

I woke up to 45 this morning on the gulf coast,, 37 for tonight,, felt good walking outside this morning to get the paper,, wind blowing thirty mph,, out of the north,, this will be a good day to spray the south fence line with weed killer,, Lou

 

[Western]

Have a crew stuck in Houston because of rain last night, hopefully they will be hard at it tonight. (dont think it will be as cold that far South.) Up here in the "North 40", it will be plenty cold, near 21* they say, I will leave it up to my guys if they can "handle" it or not, work = Christmas money so we'll see.

 

[Lou66]

Lite freeze is predicted south of I-10 to coast tonight with no winds,, so it will be cool but dry.. Now I got to go and cover some plants and move other plants inside the garage,, Guess I should havest my bananas.. lol.. Lou